Hi everyone and welcome to another episode of ancient warfare answers, or should I say

Murray's ancient warfare answers because I'm on my own again.

Here we are doing your weekly fix of 10 minutes of intense ancient military history.

I hope I can provide that this week.

Of course, we're answering a question from one of our viewers or Patrions.

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that i have today is what are some documented cases where the victorious conquering forces

held deep respect for their defeated foe or for

the manner in which their foe fought, even though they were ultimately defeated.

And it's a tricky one.

So in most cases, you've got the idea of enemies not despising one another, but certainly not being particularly enameled with them, shall we say.

Having said that, there isn't a large amount of ancient accounts of hatred in the accounts in the, you know,

ancient Egyptian warfare and even in scenes on Trajan's column,

decapitating your enemy isn't necessarily a sign that you're disrespecting.

It's a sign, you know, when we have Egyptian reliefs where hands are cut off and heads are cut off.

That's literally for a head count, probably where the phrase comes from.

And so that's not disrespect necessarily.

It's called it more sort of expedient rather than any kind of disrespect.

We've got lots of accounts of that warfare is fought, especially in the Greek world,

that warfare is fought.

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